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Detained without charge for 18 days, tortured, and released
without explanation, South Sudanese journalist Peter Ngor plans to fight back.
"I am going to sue them [in] court. What they did to me was completely, utterly
wrong," said Ngor, the editor of a new, private, English-language daily called Destiny.

Still, Ngor believes that his illegal detention was the work
of a few individuals, and that ultimately, the world's newest country will
support freedom of the press. "There are powerful individuals who want to stop
the press for their own interests," he said.

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New York, November 7,
2011--Two South Sudanese independent journalists have been imprisoned
since last week over a column critical of President Salva Kiir, according to
local journalists and news reports.

On November 1, South
Sudan National Security Services (NSS) agents in the temporary capital of Juba arrested
Peter Ngor, editor of the private daily Destiny,
and ordered the indefinite suspension of his newspaper for running an October
26 opinion article by columnist Dengdit Ayok, news reports said. The article,
titled "Let Me Say So," criticized the president for allowing his daughter to marry
an Ethiopian national and accused him of "staining his patriotism," news reports
said.